When Chandler Holbrook was born on 16 September 1807, in Florence, Oneida, New York, United States, his father, Moses Holbrook, was 28 and his mother, Hannah Lucretia Morton, was 19. He married Eunice Dunning on 22 June 1831, in Genesee, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1848 and lived in Iron City, Iron, Utah, United States in 1850 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. He registered for military service in 1852. In 1880, at the age of 73, his occupation is listed as farmer. He died on 3 September 1889, in Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Fillmore Cemetery, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Historical Boundaries: 1825: Hancock, Illinois, United States
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old English hol ‘hole, hollow’ + brōc ‘brook, stream’, such as Holbrook (Derbyshire, Dorset, Suffolk) and Howbrook in Wortley (Yorkshire).
Americanized form of North German Halbrock (or some like-sounding surname), a cognate of 1 above.
History: This name was first taken to America by the brothers Thomas and John Holbrook, who emigrated to MA in the 17th century; their line can be traced back to Dundry, Somerset, England, in the first half of the 16th century. Other English bearers who started early lines of descent in the New World are Joseph Ho(u)lbrook of Warrington, Lancashire, who emigrated to MD as an indentured servant in the later 17th century; Randolph Holbrook, who was in VA in the 1720s but later returned to Nantwich, Cheshire; and Rev. John Holbrook, who emigrated from Handbury, Staffordshire, to NJ c. 1723.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesChandler Holbrook was one of the men who in 1838 was taken prisoner with Joseph Smith in Far West, Missouri. They were taken to Richmond, Missouri for trial. The authorities asked the men, who were …
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